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White House National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien and U.S. President Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

America, terrorized

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, left, speaks as Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican from California and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, listens during an impeachment inquiry hearingon Capitol Hill November 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony during the fifth day of open hearings in the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump, whom House Democrats say held back U.S. military aid for Ukraine while demanding it investigate his political rivals. (Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

Nunes leads GOP impeachment "strike"

Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump; Nancy Pelosi (Getty/Salon)

Impeachment, through a glass darkly

Andrew O'Hehir
Bombing of the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, during the CIA-sponsored coup of Sept. 11, 1973. (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile)

Love the FBI and CIA? Get over it

David Masciotra
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Boondoggle, Inc.

William D. Hartung, Mandy Smithberger - TomDispatch.com
Erik Prince; Oliver North (AP/Gerry Broome/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump's super-secret spy team

Heather Digby Parton
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone's "Snowden" (Open Road Films)

Snowden vs. "Snowden"

Andrew O'Hehir
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders (AP/Reuters/David Becker/Carolyn Kaster/Andrew Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)

Secrets, lies and the iPhone

Andrew O'Hehir
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President Barack Obama sits with FBI director James Comey (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"Dominated" by the CIA

Elias Isquith
(AP/Jim Young/Susan Walsh/Photo montage by Salon)

How Obama embraced Bush's war

Elias Isquith
(AP/Rick Bowmer)

"It’s pure authoritarianism"

Elias Isquith
(Shutterstock/Palmer Kane LLC)

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
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(AP/Ron Edmonds)

"Close approximation of evil"

Elias Isquith
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Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Ronald Reagan (AP/Doug Mills)

Tom Engelhardt
Laura Poitras (AP/Charles Sykes)

Laura Poitras talks Ed Snowden

Andrew O'Hehir
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Secret Snowden doc premieres

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP/Kin Cheung/Salon)

Justice Brandeis and the NSA

Andrew O'Hehir
Bill Kristol (CBS News)

Kristol goes to bat for CIA

Elias Isquith
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